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Rekha Rodwittiya the Rituals of Memory: Personal Folklores and Other Tales Rekha Rodwittiya The Rituals of Memory: Personal Folklores and Other Tales Aicon Gallery Exhibition February 4th – February 27th, 2016 Press Preview & Opening Reception: Thursday, February 4th 6:00pm – 9:00pm 35 Great Jones St., New York NY 10012 Aicon Gallery New York is proud to announce Rekha Rodwittiya – The Rituals of Memory: Personal Folklores and Other Tales, the first major showing of the artist’s work in New York City in two decades. A pioneering feminist artist and voice from the Indian subcontinent, Rodwittiya rose to prominence throughout the 80s and 90s through her strikingly idiosyncratic depictions of female forms, rituals and spaces. Drawn from both the personal experiences and memories of her own feminist journey and the larger historical struggles of women through the centuries, her work was an early rejection of the tropes of a male dominated South Asian art world and its traditionally voyeuristic treatment of the female subject. This exhibition is the second in a series of exhibitions re-examining figuration in Modern and Contemporary South Asian art to be held at Aicon Gallery, New York over the next two years. Rekha Rodwittiya’s iconic, starkly delineated female figures are often viewed as concrete embodiments of the artist’s complex psychological insights into the personal and historical struggles and day-to-day challenges of modern womanhood. The simply rendered yet powerful, sometimes confrontational, figures in Rekha Rodwittiya, Rekha @ 50, 2008, Acrylic and oil on these works seem to simultaneously stand as symbols of an canvas, 84 x 60 in. ongoing struggle in the feminist realm, while refusing to be reduced to objects for visual consumption or easy interpretation. The classically poised figures carry or are surrounded by everyday household objects, reminiscent of the mythical attributes of deities found accompanying ancient sculpture. By deliberately calling attention to both the trappings and traditions of viewing the naked female body, stretching from antiquity straight through to early modernism, Rodwittiya re-appropriates these familiar archetypes and their objects of domesticity for use in her highly individual interpretation of feminist art practice. Key to this practice and central to the striking group of a dozen or so works on canvas in this exhibition is the tension created between Rodwittiya’s confrontational avatars and the viewer. Imbued with both a deeply personal cache of experience and ideology as well as centuries of feminist history, the figures often directly stare down the viewer, demanding a reckoning with the past struggles and injustices they embody rather than a simple aesthetic assessment as objects of visual art. However, these figures are not here solely to intimidate or confront, but also seek to engage our empathy and appreciation for the deeper meanings behind their existence. Rodwittiya herself provides some context into her desires surrounding this delicate interplay, stating that “the female figure, often in isolation, becomes the presence that bears witness to the passage of time. Embodied through the centuries with the energies that hold the continuums of being a life-giving force, I place the female figure as the central focus to be encountered…like protective guardians of the universe.” In addition to this central group of works on canvas, the exhibition features a large body of mixed media works combining Rodwittiya’s iconic figures with intricately woven collage work derived from her personal photography. Significantly, this represents the first use of photography in the artist’s work in over twenty-eight years and marks the return of yet another important layer to the complex autobiographical nature of her process. The outlines of these new figures are derived from those used in past paintings, while the montaged photographs function as elements of dress or in some cases a second skin. Once again these new works use the female form to create a site of retrieval for both personal and shared histories, “retraced liked mapped terrains…archived like from an archaeological survey.” Also on view will be a rarely seen suite of Rodwittiya’s early works drawn from the Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection, providing a retrospective view into the artist’s formative years. Assembled during trips to India from the 1960s through 1980s, the Herwitz Collection represents the largest and most comprehensive collection of Indian Modern Art ever assembled Rekha Rodwittiya, Matters of the Heart, 2013, Digital outside of India. The collection includes masterworks by M. F. inkjet print with autobiographic photo images and hand painted watercolor on paper, 84 x 60 in. Husain, Tyeb Mehta, Jamini Roy and countless other modern masters from the subcontinent. Rekha Rodwittiya was born in Bangalore in 1958. She studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda (B.A. fine 1981), and at the Royal College of Art, London (M.A. 1984, on the Inlaks Scholarship). She held her first solo show in 1982 in Baroda, and has subsequently held solo exhibitions in New Delhi, Mumbai, Singapore, New York, London, Venice and Stockholm, among other locations. Her work has been included in several group exhibitions in India and internationally, including the VI International Triennial, New Delhi (1986), India in Switzerland: Six Young Contemporaries, Geneva (1987), Dialogues of Peace, Geneva to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the United Nations, Geneva, Inside Out: Women Artists of India, a touring exhibition in the UK (1995-96) and many others. She has traveled widely and lectured on contemporary Indian art at the invitation of many institutions and participated in several fellowships and artist residencies in Sweden, France, the United States, and the U.K. She has also written at length on contemporary art and routinely curates exhibitions of young artists' works. This is her first solo exhibition with Aicon Gallery New York. Please contact Aicon Gallery ([email protected]) for more information. Rekha Rodwittiya Rekha Rodwittiya, Rekha @ 50 (Blue), 2008, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 84 x 60 in. Rekha Rodwittiya Rekha Rodwittiya, Rekha @ 50 (Pink), 2008, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 84 x 60 in. Rekha Rodwittiya Rekha Rodwittiya, Rekha @ 50 (Orange), 2008, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in. Rekha Rodwittiya Rekha Rodwittiya, Rekha @ 50 (Teal), 2008, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in. Rekha Rodwittiya Rekha Rodwittiya, Second Skin, 2009, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 60 x 84 in. Rekha Rodwittiya Rekha Rodwittiya, Matters of the Heart (Figure I), 2014, Digital inkjet print with autobiographic photo images and hand-painted watercolor on paper, 30 x 22 in. Rekha Rodwittiya Rekha Rodwittiya, Matters of the Heart (Figure II), 2014, Digital inkjet print with autobiographic photo images and hand-painted watercolor on paper, 30 x 22 in. Rekha Rodwittiya Rekha Rodwittiya, Matters of the Heart (Figure III), 2014, Digital inkjet print with autobiographic photo images and hand-painted watercolor on paper, 84 x 60 in. Rekha Rodwittiya Rekha Rodwittiya, Matters of the Heart (Figure IV), 2014, Digital inkjet print with autobiographic photo images and hand-painted watercolor on paper, 84 x 60 in. Rekha Rodwittiya Rekha Rodwittiya, Matters of the Heart (Figure V), 2014, Digital inkjet print with autobiographic photo images and hand-painted watercolor on paper, 84 x 60 in. Rekha Rodwittiya Rekha Rodwittiya, Matters of the Heart (Figure VI), 2014, Digital inkjet print with autobiographic photo images and hand-painted watercolor on paper, 84 x 60 in. Rekha Rodwittiya Rekha Rodwittiya, Matters of the Heart (Figure VII), 2014, Digital inkjet print with autobiographic photo images and hand-painted watercolor on paper, 84 x 60 in. Rekha Rodwittiya Rekha Rodwittiya, Nayika/Guddiya (Purple), 2009, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 36 x 24 in. Rekha Rodwittiya Rekha Rodwittiya, Nayika/Guddiya (Blue), 2009, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 36 x 24 in. Rekha Rodwittiya Rekha Rodwittiya, Nayika/Guddiya (Red), 2009, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 36 x 24 in. Rekha Rodwittiya Rekha Rodwittiya, Nayika (Blue), 2009, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 24 x 24 in. Rekha Rodwittiya Rekha Rodwittiya, Nayika (Orange), 2009, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 24 x 24 in. Rekha Rodwittiya Rekha Rodwittiya, Nayika (Red), 2009, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 24 x 24 in. Rekha Rodwittiya Rekha Rodwittiya, Matters of the Heart (Head I), 2013, Digital inkjet print with autobiographic photo images and hand-painted watercolor on paper, 60 x 60 in. Rekha Rodwittiya Rekha Rodwittiya, Matters of the Heart (Head II), 2013, Digital inkjet print with autobiographic photo images and hand-painted watercolor on paper, 60 x 60 in. Rekha Rodwittiya Rekha Rodwittiya, Matters of the Heart (Head III), 2013, Digital inkjet print with autobiographic photo images and hand-painted watercolor on paper, 60 x 60 in. Rekha Rodwittiya Rekha Rodwittiya, Matters of the Heart (Head IV), 2013, Digital inkjet print with autobiographic photo images and hand-painted watercolor on paper, 60 x 60 in. Rekha Rodwittiya Rekha Rodwittiya, Matters of the Heart (Head V), 2013, Digital inkjet print with autobiographic photo images and hand-painted watercolor on paper, 60 x 60 in. Rekha Rodwittiya Rekha Rodwittiya, Matters of the Heart (Head VI), 2013, Digital inkjet print with autobiographic photo images and hand-painted watercolor on paper, 60 x 60 in. REKHA RODWITTIYA Education 1982-84 MA (Painting) Royal College of Art, London, UK. Awarded a distinction for my thesis “A Painful Journey”. Received The Unilever
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